Tchukon

Tchukon
Origin	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Genres	funk, rhythm and blues
Years active	1978–1990
Labels	Aquarius Records
Past members	Warren "Slim" Williams Kat Dyson Harold Fisher Ingrid Stitt Eric Roberts

Tchukon was a Canadian funk and rhythm and blues band, active from 1978 to 1990. Best known for winning CBC Television's 1985 music competition Rock Wars and being named Best Vocal Group in the 1986 edition of Star Search, the band ultimately released just one Juno Award-nominated album before dissolving.

The band consisted of singer and keyboardist Warren "Slim" Williams, singer and guitarist Kat Dyson, bassist Harold Fisher, saxophonist Ingrid Stitt and drummer Eric Roberts, and was formed in 1978 after Williams, Dyson and Roberts all moved to Montreal, Quebec from their original home in Norfolk, Virginia. In Montreal, they added Fisher, also an American immigrant, and Stitt, the band's only Canadian-born member. The band took its name from a Russian language word for the point at which the physical world and the cosmic world merge.

In their early years, the band regularly performed both in Montreal and on tour, recorded the single "Plastic People" b/w "Love's Gonna Get You", and recorded and performed as a backing band for acts such as Louise Portal, Michel Pagliaro, Boule Noire, Freddie James and Véronique Béliveau. Dyson was also simultaneously a performer with the Montreal Jubilation Gospel Choir.

In 1985, they competed on Rock Wars, winning the competition over finalists Eye Eye, HB Concept and Peter Mann and the Lonely. Their prize included CA$100,000 and a half-hour CBC Television special, which they then submitted as their demo for the 1986 Star Search. They were named Best Vocal Group in the latter competition, winning a prize of US$100,000. They were the first Canadian-based act ever to win a Star Search category.

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